Baby Crib for my first Grandchild

This is a baby crib I just completed for my first grandchild. It’s made from white hard tiger maple. I used wood dye to pop the grain. The pyramid inserts are also maple dyed with dark walnut dye. My wife made all of the bedding and bumper pads. The “little man” is due any day now.

The hardware and plans were purchased from the Woodsmith Store in Des Moines, Iowa.

As I plan to build a crib in the near future, I would be happy if you could elaborate a bit about two items I’m indecisive about.1. How did you join the fence vertical posts to the horizontals. Are these regular tenon and mortise joints? If yes, it is probably a lot of work to make so many of them.

2. How did you apply the finish, as the fences were already glued up or before gluing? As the posts are built quite dense, is there no problem to reach all the parts?

The top and bottom rails of the gates have a dado groove cut in them. Spacers are inserted and glued in the groove, one between each of the horizontal slats. The Woodsmith Store has a complete plan and hardware kit that I used.

I applied dye to all of the wood prior to assembly. Once the dye was dry I did a final sanding to help “pop” the grain in the tiger maple. After everything was glued together I then applied two coats of a tung oil/boiled linseed oil 50/50 mix. I let the oil dry for four days and then sprayed on high gloss oil based polyurethane.

Very nice. I’ll contact the Woodsmith Store in Des Moines for the plans and hardware so I can get started. It has taken a little bit to find the crib I want to build. This is the one. Thank you for sharing your project.